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Émile Bréhier
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Émile Bréhier (French: [bʁeje]; 12 April 1876 – 3 February 1952) was a French philosopher and historian of philosophy. He wrote a Histoire de la Philosophie, translated into English in seven volumes. This work inspired Frederick Copleston's own History of Philosophy (1946–1975), initially comprising nine volumes.
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The most memorable example in modern times of a man who united the spirit of philosophy with the pursuits of active life, and kept wholly clear from the partialities and prejudices both of the student and of the practical statesman, was Turgot; the wonder not only of his age, but of history, for his astonishing combination of the most opposite, and, judging from common experience, almost incompatible excellences…
John Stuart Mill, Essays on some unsettled Questions of Political Economy
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Thus we now meet the view very usually taken of the history of Philosophy which ascribes to it the narration of a number of philosophical opinions as they have arisen and manifested themselves in time. This kind of matter is in courtesy called opinions; those who think themselves more capable of judging rightly, call such a history a display of senseless follies, or at least of errors made by men engrossed in…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy
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The refutation of a philosophy, therefore, only means that its barriers are crossed, and its special principle reduced to a factor in the completer principle that follows. Thus the history of philosophy, in its true meaning, deals not with a past, but with an eternal and veritable present: and, in its results, resembles not a museum of the aberrations of the human intellect, but a Pantheon of Godlike figures. These…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Logic of Hegel
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Philosophers who discussed Émile Bréhier
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- Frederick Copleston
- Neo-Kantianism
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Henri Bergson
- Philosophy
- Western philosophy
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
- Philo
- Neoplatonism
- Continental philosophy
- University of Bordeaux
- Paul Ricœur
- Catholic Encyclopedia
- History of philosophy
- Contemporary philosophy
- Jean Hyppolite
- University of Paris
- A History of Philosophy (Copleston)
- Victor Brochard
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Part of Ramism.